By 2050 the US will grow to become home to 400 million Americans. How will we accommodate 100 million new citizens? Will our future be marked by a declining influence in the world and reduced circumstances at home? In The Next Hundred Million, internationally renowned social and economic trend analyst Joel Kotkin upends current conventional wisdom, looking beyond our short-term challenges to reveal why a brighter future for America may lie ahead. By focusing on the evolution of the more intimate units of American society—families, towns, neighborhoods, industries—rather than power brokers, policy disputes or abstract trends, he provides an optimistic road map to how we all will live and work by mid-century. Note: Please arrive early; doors open at 6:30.

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